Homemade Fresh Strawberry Syrup

April 05, 2025

Happy Hour and Dessert in Capitol Hill

Happy Hour Street Tacos with Carne Asada and a Miami Vice from Poquitos. Poquitos is located in Capitol Hill and they're serving up authentic Mexican cuisine and cocktails. Their happy hour deal is a good one- during Ocho hour, everything on the happy hour menu is just $8! I went with a Miami Vice, a classic Pina Colada with Strawberry. This blended cocktail was so fruity and delicious. To eat I had two Carne Asada Street Tacos and a Birria Poquitos Burrito. The Burrito was small and served with a side of Consommé sauce. Both food items were tasty and satisfying. My husband also had some Street Tacos and a Margarita from the happy hour menu. My sons had a Cheese Quesadilla and beans and rice. Everyone enjoyed their dinner. I first visited Poquitos in 2012, also for happy hour, and I remembered liking it then, too. It was time for a meal there again. For dessert, we walked about ten minutes west to Voodoo Doughnut . The Seattle location opened late last ye...

When I have a birthday or someone in my family does, I love to make a special breakfast. Nothing's better than starting your day with some good eats. My boys just had their third birthday and I wanted to make them French toast, their favorite breakfast food. To shake things up and make it "birthday breakfast special", I made a strawberry syrup to pour over the French toast. I found an easy recipe with four ingredients here and then I got to work. The best part about making the syrup was the scrumptious scent of the strawberries cooking. Before I knew it, the syrup was done. Then I bottled it up to use the next morning for our breakfast. The strawberry syrup was sweet and had the perfect consistency. It went well with the French toast and as I ate mine, I daydreamed all the ways I could use the syrup. Poured over pancakes, waffles, strawberry shortcake, cheesecake......you get the idea.

Fresh Strawberry Syrup

Ingredients:

3 cups strawberries, diced

1 cup granulated sugar

2 T. lemon juice

1/4. t. vanilla extract

Directions:

Combine strawberries, sugar, lemon juice, and vanilla in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Lower heat to a gentle simmer until the strawberries are soft and the syrup is thickened and reduced by 1/3 to 1/2 in volume, about fifteen minutes, stirring occasionally. Syrup will thicken upon standing so simply whisk in more water to reached consistency if needed.

You can click here for the recipe I use when making French toast.